Sleep Kills: "A Nightmare on Elm Street" (1984), a film by Wes Craven

«A Nightmare on Elm Street» (also known as "Nightmare dal profondo della notte", "Nightmare - Mörderische Träume") is a Fantasy/Horror/Thriller film directed and written by Wes Craven, released in the USA on November 09 of 1984 , starring John Saxon, Ronee Blakley, Heather Langenkamp, Amanda Wyss, Jsu Garcia and Johnny Depp.

Storyline:

Tina Gray (Amanda Wyss) has a dream in which she is stalked through a dark boiler room by a mutilated figure with distinctive razor-sharp knives attached to the fingers on his right hand. Just as he catches her, however, she wakes up screaming, only to discover four razor cuts in her nightdress identical to the cuts in her dream.

The next day, she finds out that her friend Nancy Thompson (Heather Langenkamp) experienced a similar dream involving the same sinister figure, but Nancy is convinced that all is well. That night, Tina, Nancy and her boyfriend Glen Lantz (Johnny Depp) have a sleep-over to make the distraught Tina feel better, as she is still troubled by her nightmare. Tina's rebellious boyfriend, Rod Lane (Nick Corri), crashes the party. He and Tina have sex in her mother's bedroom. However, Tina has another nightmare, and this time the killer catches and murders her brutally. Rod wakes up to find Tina being cut open by invisible knives, then dragged up the wall and [...]

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